Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.
My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.
After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.
Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.
The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.
I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.